St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-14
The Quarrel Between the Builders and
Bricklayers at Chicago Eas Just
Reached Its elimination.
Work Was Stopped Last Night on All
Etiifices in Course of Erection and
a General Lockout Ordered.
Both Employers and Employees Deter
mined TO Fight it Out if it Takes
All the Summer.
Grand Master Workman Powderly Asks
the Knights to Celebrate July
as True american Citizens.

CHICAGO, May 13.-Fifteen hundred
briclklayerS and almost as many car
penters, hodcarriers and other wOrkmen
employed on buildings, We're reported
idle this morning, with fresh acceSSionS
hourly. Tomorrow it is said the Brick
layers union will go through the for
mality of ordering a strike and will call
Off the few men at work at present. Six
men at work for Joseph D0wney on a
depot at Indianapolis, have been called
in and are expected III town tomorrow.
The architects and real estate dealers
have called meetings at which commit
tees will be appointed to confer and CO.
operate with a committee to be APP
pointed by the builders tomorrow morn
ing for the purpose of endorsing any
action taken by the members of the
union. The following notice was
mailed to each member of the Master
MaSonS and Builders association to-
day:
In pursuance Of the following resolution,
adopted at meeting OF the association, held
Tuesday evening, May 10,
Resolved, That we, the Master Masons
and builders association, do hereby pledge
ourselves to request You to comply with the
demand made by the bricklayers' and stone
maSonS' union for payment of wages on
Saturday, ard we furthermore bind ourselves
in honor TO pay every second Monday o.
Tuesday, and that i'll case the bricklayers or
StonemaSOnS refuse to work, or strike, on
any members of the Master Masons and
Builders association. that we will shut down
all our work until said strike is over
You are hereby requested to stop all work
Friday night, May 13,and report to the eXecu-
tive committee. Joseph Downey. president
Tonight all building operations under
the control of contractors who are MEM
berS of the Master MasonS' and Build
erS' association were shut down. so far
as the bricklayerS and StOnemaS0nS are
concerned. 1t is estimated that fully
10000 WOrkmen are now idle in the
building trades of this city as the result
OF strikes or the lockout. The general
shutdown inaugurated this evening is
| the outgrowth of a series of strikes in
| the building trades, and is in the
nature of an attempt by the employers
| to force battle with the wOrkmen and
secure lasting peace during the sea-
son. The carpenters, painters and other
men it is announced will be kept
at work as long as there is any
thing for them to do, but this will not
help them much, for practically all work
will in three or four days be blocked by
the lockout Of briclIlayerS and maS0ns.
The employers claim to have established
perfect embargo on building material,
only a few dealers and some of the
smaller bricklnen having failed to
sign the agreement not to sell material
during the lockout. The North Side
Brick Manufacturers association at a
meeting to-day decided to shut down
"Wednesday. They employ 1.600 men,
and this force will be added to tie idle
army of 10000. The sufferers so far are
composed Of about 5000 bricklayers
4.000 bod carriers, 1,500 carpenters
painters and plumbers. and 1,50O mis-
cellaneOuS mechanics and laborerS. Al
uproarious meeting of the Bricklayers
union was held tonight. but no action
of any kind was taken, either to rescint
the demand for Saturday pay day OF
to formally declare strike.